Money Moves.

This guy has been on hyper drive these two past days. No idea why. Gave him a buck fifty advance yesterday? But look at the progress. Everywhere but the kitchen has paint.

Paid for the floors...Picking it up Thursday. You aren't ready.

Dream Catcher

New Texture

New Paint

Love it or hate it. Going to be boss.

French Bleed...

I think we picked it [going to mull over it for another day]:

Dark one on the right. Courtesy of: http://www.shophomeelements.com

So I was not able to update last night, due to the exhausting manual labor Peter and Jackie enlisted me to do and also Seagram's Sweet Tea Vodka, again.

Here is a recap of my slave day. Woke up at 9 to remove a door from Jackie's mom's house and help Peter take down some lights. Little did I know, "some" lights in Peter's vocabulary is actually 22. No big deal, I am a pro, remember? Uninstalled the lights, ripped out the door and I thought we were done. Nope, moved about 4 tons of rocks, some trees, moved some TV's, a 400lb tree stump [all of these measurements are probably over exaggerated, but it sure felt like that]. Basically, I was Frederick Douglas from 9am to 8pm, albeit I was fed and properly hydrated. It was fun... [parts of it]. I am reluctant to call Peter right now as he needs help texturing, but I did and he didn't pick up. Whew.

Here are some photos from my adventure:

How sad, it used to be her OFFICE door, it is now The Lamsion's Front Door.

Don't act surprised. I am a carpenter.

Not only can I install, I can remove...

New backyard furniture. Thanks Ms. Tong!

Too bad, Peter made me stay in that position for 2 miles while holding his fcking TV's.

New closet set up. Hi Simon!

Those rocks are no joke. Going to the Chow's to swim. See you guys tomorrow.

wtf

WTF? How drunk were they? Why they do that to my shoe. Gotta wake up early to help Peter take about his house. More details soon.

Progress...

I love progress.

After some 2am Jack in the Box, I swing by the house and find an El Camino parked on the driveway. I guess that bathroom money we paid them went to good hands. They got their car working again. They were working still at 2am. I like it.

Feels Good To Be USEFUL.

I fixed the lights in the staircase. Quick lesson here. Don't take short cuts. Just do it right the first time, even if it takes longer or costs more. I didn't box up and clip one of the splices and low and behold one of the wires got loose. I could not figure out at which point it was loose so I had to do some surgery. After 1 hour of bullshit, I fixed it!

Lights working again! See the mud? They are patching. I am stoked.

Should put the mantle back on huh?

And it starts...

Soon!

Stage Two: Walls.

The patching has begun, so I had do all my last minute work. Thomas wanted a ceiling fan in his bedroom, so I had to run the wire behind the wall. Yeah...fck that. I could not do it by just removing the sheet rock but had to climb into the attic. It felt like a flipipng firecracker hot wreck. Anyways, my shirt was so wet it looked like I just left Raging Waters. I still hate Thomas...it was hell but I guess it is worth it? Now he has a nice switch to power his ceiling fan?

Before

After. Thanks to Ankit for cutting those holes in the sheet rock.

Enjoy these pics as the rooms will not look like this in a matter of 4 days.

Kitchen Walls.

Living Room Walls.

One of Thomas' Room

Very tired. Will be re-wiring the stair case lights tomorrow. Will update.

Finally...

So the finishing touches are being put on our bathrooms. It should be sealed this weekend and texturing will start at the beginning of the week. This should take no more than 7 days according to the Mexican-Jew [aka Mark aka Dale from Step Brothers]. Things are never how you planned them to be. We agreed on $2,000 for both bathrooms and as we get to the end things just get tacked on. We had to settle on a figure for everything and then move onto the texturing. I had a couple Seagram's Sweet Tea Vodkas and decided to negotiate [Seagram's, I drink it, they pay me -Lil' Jon]. Here is an excerpt of our pathetic conversation yesterday:

P: Yo Mark, have you calculated the texturing and painting?
M: Yeah, I had Ricky [who?] help me calculate and he said about $1.00 I mean $2.00 per sq. foot.
P: Ok, that is cool. How exactly do you measure this?
M: Uh, yeah. So...it is about 1100.
P: $1100 or 1100 sq feet?
M: Oh we measured about 1100 sq feet including the hallways and more.
P: Uh ok, sure. So you want $2200?
M: Yeah. If that is cool with you.
P: Nope, not going to happen.
M: [Insert 10 excuses of why it cost so much]
P: Sorry, that is outrageous, I got a quote for $1000 to texture the place. I do not value primering and painting our entire house at $1200. If that is the case, just texture it and I will just roll on the paint myself.
M: Oh man it is a lot of work. It is more than just painting. Plus blah blah blah blah. Ok, how about $1500?
P: I don't think Thomas will agree, but ok that is more reasonable.

So after a couple of drinks I call him today.

P: So I talked to Thomas and he said $1500 is out of the picture. We can paint the house for less than $500 ourselves, I have no job and can do it easily.
M: How much do you guys want to pay?
P: $1200. I am not trying to jew you or anything.
M: $1500 is the lowest I can go.
P: Ok, so what does it involve?
M: Patching all of your holes, removing the sheet rock in your bedroom and replacing it, hang all of your new doors and paint them, mud all of the walls, texture all of the walls, primer all of the walls, paint the ceiling white and the walls wave crest blue [no homo].
P: Ok, I will talk to Thomas, but I doubt he will budge. [I use Thomas as the bad guy]

So we agreed on $1500. I will walk with him through the whole house tomorrow and write down EVERYTHING so this $300 for 2 vents shit does not occur again.

Wish me luck. Swimming tomorrow.

How Big Do YOU Think It Is?

What do you think? 32? 42? 47? 52? Holla.

So as we near completion of The Lamsion, I have been slowly buying stuff to live in their comfortably. I have been scouring Craigslist for a TV for the longest time. I finally found one that I liked [1080p and xx"] for a good price. I didn't negotiate with the guy cause this sucker was only $400. Shout out to Gary in Mountain House. Yep I went 100 miles for this bad boy. Sorry about your house being foreclosed, but thanks for the hook up. Holla. Special shout out goes to my boy Chris for driving me and putting this bad boy in his truck. Holla again.

Son be fcking natural and shit.

So I have not updated in a bit, there are reasons. I will explain. The smallest reason is my camera went to Vancouver to capture these amazing photos:

Holla at hotties. Yep.

Second of all, Mark [of the famous Step Brothers] hurt his arm/shoulder. I don't even know if I believe him. But I will give him the benefit of the doubt. Straight not show up for 4 days. Whatever, so today his brother fcking hits me up [ok this is going to be a rant btw]. Here is the transcript:

S: Hey, you know the vents are extra right?

P: Huh? 

S: The vents, they are extra.

P: I am sorry. I do not understand what you are trying to say.

S: The vents I installed, they aren't part of the $1000 for the bathroom.

P: Oh really? I was not aware of that. So, what do you plan on charging me?

S: I was thinking $150 a piece.

P: Oh really? Ok, let me talk to your brother about this.

[P walks upstairs]

P: Yo Mark, your brother downstairs is trying to tell me the vents are not included in the bathrooms and he wants $150 each for them.

M: Oh yeah, didn't we agree that it wasn't part of it?

P: Ok, if that is what you think then fine. But you said it was part of it when we bought the vents on the first day. Still don't think I should pay for them.

M: Yeah, it was part of it.

P: Ok, $150 each? So your brother wants me to pay him fcking 2 days wage for something I can do in 8 hours? I can do it in 8 hours and I am not a pro, so you are telling me you guys are TWICE as slow as me? Give me a fcking break.

M: Ok, ok, ok. Sorry. I will talk to Steve.

P: How the fck you going to install something for me then charge me for it? Serious? See you tonight. Peace.

M: Ok, ok, ok, ok. I will talk to Steve.

[P walks out]

Serious? Some wack bullshit. But this is a tip, if you ever do ANYTHING, get the fcking thing in writing. Real talk.

$70 Counter? Unheard Of...

So our guy [Mark from Step Brothers] told Thomas he'd fix up his current vanity [sand it down and repaint it, shown earlier last week] and get a counter top for it made of Corian for $70. I mean c'mon, that is almost too good to be true. A brand new top for $70? So we bit and gave him $70 and wrote it off as a sunk cost as I never thought he would come through. Low and behold, here it is. Can we say: New Kitchen Tops? Holla.

Pretty sweet, eh? I am borderline jealous, but please refer to my vanity and you will know why I am not.

Going to do some floor shopping with the moms tomorrow and will check out cabinets too, but I think we will end up refinishing ours. No new updates, cause these two fools haven't worked on the bathrooms for two days. Seriously? Oh and Chinese Softball League Championship tomorrow, I will post a pic with me and a trophy. Yep.